Update: That's it, folks! Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out for the event, both contestants and spectators alike. Also a huge thanks to the fine people who followed along online. We hope everyone had a good time, I know we all did!
See you next year!
It's AVC Day! Welcome once again to the SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition - the event that pits machine against machine in a race around the SparkFun World Headquarters in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. The event starts around 9am MDT and will run until 5:30pm or so.
This year we've beefed up our camera presence and are going to be live streaming the event on ustream, which is embedded here for your viewing pleasure:
We'll have some additional folks hanging around our IRC channel (#sparkfun on FreeNode). Be sure to say hi to SFE_Pearce, who is actually sitting at the emcee's table - give him a shout!
So once again, welcome one and all to the Fourth Annual SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Competition!
Does the audio sound choppy to anyone else?
I think Ustream reduces the quality until it can stream indefinitely without buffering.... which sucks for those of us on slower networks, but hey, it was still great to watch.
Now I have no sound except for the commercials.
Yea I hit refresh and much better now
Yeah, the audio is completely broken.
[edit] Oh, I clicked play again and now it's fine. Yay!
I might move to boulder just to go to this every year, Boulder looks nice anyway.
Yeah everything is very choppy, except for the ads. I guess I'll wait for the recap video
The band looks good.
The funniest moment was when the audio was chopped up as Robert said "Sm-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oth!"...
so... anyone else sporting an AVC sunburn? :)
Had I been thinking, I would have put one of the Sparkfun flame stickers on my shoulder, so i'd have a cool Sparkfun Tantoo. Oh well, next year!
Oh yeah, not a terrible burn but definitely red like a SparkFun shirt. Seriously needed the sunblock.
Anyway to see the AVC that was streamed ? As I didn't see it when it was live. :(
So you had to answer 5000 capchas to get a working stream.
Yes!
Best day EVAR!
Is this more exciting in person?
Its like the BattleBots type event I went to years ago. 15 to 20 minutes of nothing and then 2 minutes of robots beating the crap out of each other.
It's autonomy man. That should be exciting enough!
Sorry if I sounded snarky, its just not as exciting without the sound.
So sad I couldn't be there this year. Will be interesting to do the 'remote viewing' experience at least.